LETTER: Supervisors committed to public interest

To the Editor:

Our government is a government of, by and for the people. It is those same people who have elected our county board supervisors into office, and it is those same people also who — in two consecutive and decisive advisory referenda, and by respective margins of 2-1 and 3-2 — have unequivocally communicated to our county board a strong willingness to continue partially supporting with their property tax dollars our county-owned nursing home in New Richmond.

I commend and thank in particular those 11 St. Croix County Board Supervisors who — at the recent county board meeting, and by a margin of 11-7 — demonstrated their willingness to listen to their constituents. By their vote, those 11 supervisors have displayed their unconditional commitment to act in the public interest.

I also commend the entire county board, not only for the civil manner in which its members carried on the dialogue which ensued as each item on the Oct. 2 agenda unfolded, but also for having agreed — by consensus — to allow input from the general public during that portion of the agenda which dealt with the future of our county-owned nursing home.

It is therefore with sincere gratitude that I say a heartfelt thank you to each of you for your gift of service to our county.

Buzz Marzolf

Town of Troy

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